EAA INDEX 2006
EUROPEAN
ACOUSTICS ASSOCIATION – EAA
The
European Acoustics Association was founded in 1992 by eleven European acoustical
societies. Organised in the form of a non-profit making enterprise, nowadays
under Spanish legislation, it provides a firm base for many activities in
Acoustics that earlier European groupings could not achieve.
The European
Acoustics Association – EAA ...
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is a service provider to 29 Acoustical Societies throughout Europe, with more
than 8.500 individual members
- offers a range of Products which can only be efficiently provided
by means of pan-European cooperation
- is democratically organised – based on the federal principles of
one vote per society, regardless of size, with adherence to the concept of
subsidiarity
- has an efficient Management Structure – managers being assigned due
to competence and not simply for political balance
- is economically powerful since the full members share the running
costs of the business
- is open to all European acoustical societies due to the concept of
associate-member societies, which are entitled to economic privileges in accordance
with their economic status – associate members can become full members at
any time
- provides a good basis for the general growth and expansion of activities
in acoustics to meet future demands of its member societies
- provides attractive opportunities for responsible volunteers who
want to devote part of their working power and expertise to activities at
the pan-European level
- works on the principle of subsidiarity – that is, it complements,
and does not replace the activities of national and regional societies
- gathers together 29 National Societies of Acoustics and serves more
than 8.500 individual members in the following countries:
Austria,
Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom.